Reply Dillie-O says: January 11, 2015 at 8:37 am Hmmm, a couple of things to check. Maybe if u open ports in the router so u can access the readyshare map and u can do backup's from everywhere? I must have been missing things when I was double check gin my setup after upgrading to Mavericks Reply Dan Macro says: April 6, 2014 at 7:17 pm Awesome writeup. See if this helps your issue. http://openoffice995.com/time-machine/time-machine-error-on-backup.php

This is huge, as these instructions can provide guidance with any router that shares a hard drive, really. asked 3 years ago viewed 58354 times active 2 years ago Related 8How to delete another machine's time machine backup?2How can I automount a shared network drive for Time Machine backups?11Time I don't know if all the issues here have been entirely resolved now, but it does seem more reliable. Thank you Reply Dillie-O says: March 10, 2014 at 11:10 am Hmm, when you navigate to the "Volumes" folder in the terminal, are you seeing the drive mounted there? https://community.netgear.com/t5/Stora-Legacy/Solution-to-quot-Time-Machine-could-not-complete-the-backup/td-p/294697

That way it at least gives me a single place to look. Final Notes You'll want to do make sure that your drives/images are remounted upon login to make sure Time Machine continues to function. I'll admit I'm not at 100% uptime with the backups either, but I'm probably about 95% success and for me this works just fine. Unfortunately, when I enter cd /Volumes, I get nothing.

i know it took me a couple of tries to get it going myself. QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN /dev/rdisk3s2: fsck_hfs completed at Sat Jan 25 04:00:38 2014 /dev/rdisk3s2: fsck_hfs started at Sat Jan 25 04:00:38 2014 /dev/rdisk3s2: /dev/rdisk3s2: ** /dev/rdisk3s2 (NO WRITE) /dev/rdisk3s2: Executing fsck_hfs The address is only used to identify your computer. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3721409?start=0&tstart=0 Not quite sure why you would have that issue.

Another person reported not being able to work with drives over 2TB in size, regardless of the partition size. It could have been a small detail missed. Lost Password Forum Apple Stuff Apple General Time machine error 17 and 45 Results 1 to 7 of 7 Thread: Time machine error 17 and 45 LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacks Report Inappropriate Content Message 6 of 12 (23,091 Views) Model: Reply 0 Kudos sillyname Aspirant Posts: 669 Registered: ‎2010-08-12 Re: Solution to: "Time Machine could not complete the backup.

Time Machine Sparsebundle Could Not Be Created Error Null

One other bit of info: the backup drive contains 2x250GB partitions. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-and-networked-folder-drive.1425355/ Was able to move from that step, but I'm stuck where Grant Wallace is/was. Sparsebundle Could Not Be Created (error (null)) I had them physically connected, but would like to create a personal cloud using ReadySHARE to share it across my machines. Time Machine (error (null)) share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email Link Like + Quote Reply Namtaro, Aug 24, 2012 Namtaro thread starter macrumors regular Joined: Dec 4, 2011 #13 I tried what they

Open up a new terminal, and enter the following commands: cd /Volumes ls If all is still working smoothly, you'll see your Time Machine image listed Now enter the command (we useful reference It includes passing the path to the bundle by argument and fixes a few issues. Give it a look over and see if it helps. CD to downloads folder where makeimage.sh script is located.

I have a 1TB Hammer that I use to store all my photos/movies etc. What about after the backup? Any ideas?Click to expand... my review here I'm updating my article above with how to mount using the various versions of OSX, so please check up there again and see if it works.

This fools Time Machine into treating it as if it were a direct-connection volume, and the virtual volume and AFP APIs will work together to handle the checksumming and validity of After doing so, I wasn't able to connect to my readyshare drives, though I could still connect to them through my Windows virtual machines. Open up the file in text editor and find the section: StartInterval3600 You should change the number 3600 to the number of seconds of your backup interval.

There also aren't any files in the sparsebundle, only a ‘bands' folder, info.bckup and info.plist, and ‘token'.

From there, create a sparse bundled disc image on the partition for your Time Machine backup. Any thoughts? John Reply With Quote 4th June 2011,03:31 PM #5 ednap Join Date Jun 2010 Location Sydney, Australia, Australia Posts 645 Can also try using disk utility to repair the sparsbundle Reply The volume name was MACBACKUP, which is what I had named the partition that I wanted to use as the backup.

Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the http://lifehacker.com/5691649/an-easier-way-to-set-up-time-machine-to-back-up-to-a-networked-windows-computer (Using Window 7 and the SMB server) macos mavericks time-machine share|improve this question edited Jun 26 '14 at 6:14 Scott Earle 2,204416 asked Oct 26 '13 at 20:18 Josh P And Netgear itself is clueless. http://openoffice995.com/time-machine/time-machine-backup-error.php Well that wasn't the case and then I thought, well, I can't use time machine on a network drive.

I'm connected, the shared network is running fine. I've tried the sparsebundle image thing, but the guide was for snow leopard. I'm going to try and use this info to try and repair said volume tomorrow. If you don't see it show up on your desktop, you can see it in the device list in the sidebar of your finder: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s34/sh/77dccf5d-5f24-411b-aa8f-ed8d624b8fc0/9752c17f05c22a73896594dd7b559787 If you're not seeing it there,

I was just going mad. I am a giant moron and spent the last half hour trying to figure out why I couldn't back up my Mac to a 1,000MB disk image. So two different logins shouldn't cause conflicts. Spaces have been known to cause issues. 3. …still looking into other options. 8^D Let me know if this helps.

As soon as you step outside the protocols and use a destination that is not a directly-connected HFS Extended volume, a Time Capsule, or another Mac running OSX 10.5.2 or greater, For example, if "tmutil" uses the same syntax as the "mount_afp", then the command would look like the following: Code: tmutil setdestination [-a] afp://;AUTH=switon%20Krb%[email protected]/afp-share-volume I use this syntax for authenticating the It worked like a charm. It just says "Making backup disk available" and then eventually throws an error 45 which seems to be a sparsebundle could not be created error.

You can name the image whatever you want. I've tried all these formats but I get an error saying file doesn't exist. Should I assume that everything is fine? Reply Dillie-O says: January 4, 2015 at 1:12 pm Hmm, I haven't had any problems after going up to Yosemite.

I tried doing this yesterday, but I didn't see it in the Router Admin tool. If you have multiple users backing up to the same network share though then you could run into problems, but then that can happen with AFP too, even though it's supposed Many of them are not terrible helpful, or require a lot of knowledge and/ or patience.